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CRUSHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
Example:
the stifling of all dissent
Synonyms:
crushing; quelling; stifling; suppression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("crushing" is a kind of...):
bar; prevention (the act of preventing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crushing"):
crackdown (severely repressive actions)
Derivation:
crush (come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
Example:
bone-crushing
Synonyms:
crushing; devastating
Classified under:
Similar:
destructive (causing destruction or much damage)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb crush
Context examples:
"Nothing could have been worse," was Amy's crushing reply.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
That was the problem that (crushing my temples in my hands) I set myself to solve.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Get immediate medical care if you have chest pain that does not go away, crushing pain or pressure in the chest, or chest pain along with nausea, sweating, dizziness or shortness of breath.
(Chest Pain, NIH)
If you have other symptoms such as crushing chest pain, it could be a heart attack.
(Heartburn, NIH)
The seafloor is an alien landscape, with crushing pressures, near-total darkness and fluids wafting from cracks in the Earth's crust.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
Issue associated with the buckling or crushing of material from external forces.
(Collapse of Medical Device or Device Component, Food and Drug Administration)
Little did I think that this would be the prelude to the most crushing misfortune of my life.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But the instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it right.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He cowered in the midst of the milky water, as though the vastness were pressing in upon him with overwhelming force, brutally crushing him with its complacent awfulness.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The final Kepler catalog will serve as the foundation for more study to determine the prevalence and demographics of planets in the galaxy, while the discovery of the two distinct planetary populations shows that about half the planets we know of in the galaxy either have no surface, or lie beneath a deep, crushing atmosphere – an environment unlikely to host life.
(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)
